"I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly â€” and with very little financial encouragement â€” saving lives and minds. I canâ€™t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, expect perhaps the bicycle."

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Source : "It Takes a Community College" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2009.

Kay Ryan

#Encouragement Quotes #Home Quotes #College Quotes

“To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.”
“When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.”
“I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.”
“The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.”

Source : Neala Schleuning, Meridel Le Sueur (1983). “America, song we sang without knowing: the life and ideas of Meridel LeSueur”, Don Olson Distribution
“Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.”
“Life was a pre-death experience.”
“The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.”

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